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Misstraue jedem Politiker, jedem Regierungs- oder Staatschef, der seine Religion zum Instrument macht. Halte Abstand von solchen Politikern, die ihre auf das Jenseits orientierte Religion und ihre diesseitige Politik miteinander vermischen. ↗

— Helmut Schmidt

#fundamentalism #politics #religion #secularism #religion

Discipline imposed from the outside eventually defeats when it is not matched by desire from within. ↗

— Dawson Trotman

#discipline #religion #religion

Concerning that which cannot be talked about, we should not say anything. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#religion

To regret religion is to regret Western civilization. ↗

— Theodore Dalrymple

#politics #religion #religion

Don’t water your testimony with your righteous expectations of church members. Their imperfection will disappoint you every time and cause you to leave every church you try to join. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#beliefs #expectations #judgement #religion #selfrighteousness

My religion is no way of knowing me. ↗

— Jeet Thayil

#religion

...religion either produces the very best people or the very worst. ↗

— Richard Rohr

#spirituality #religion

Justice and injustice indeed begins and ends with the self. ↗

— Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas

#religion

At the end of time when God judges us humans, I just hope He remembers to judge Himself as well. ↗

— Indra Sinha

#religion #religion

A religion is a system of symbols which acts to establish powerful, pervasive, and long-lasting moods in men by formulating conceptions of a general order of existence and clothing those conceptions with such an aura of factuality that the moods and motivations seem uniquely realistic. ↗

— Clifford Geertz

#religion #society #symbolism #symbols #men